If you left TV Time and landed on this comparison, you have probably worked out that most replacements are iOS-only or want money. These two are neither. This page is the straight version of how they differ — written by us, so read it accordingly.
| Serializd | Help Me Binge | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no paid tier | Free, no paid tier |
| Where it runs | Web, iOS, Android | Any browser — phone, tablet, laptop. Android app too. |
| TV shows | Yes | Yes |
| Movies | No | Yes |
| Live sport | No | Yes |
| TV Time import | Yes — history, ratings, reviews | Yes — plus your episode comments, back on the episodes they belong to |
| Reviews & social feed | Its strongest feature — season reviews, followers, a real community | Reviews, comments and partner sync, but a smaller community |
| What your subscriptions cost you | No | Yes — which ones you pay for and have not watched |
You watch TV and only TV, and the part of TV Time you miss most is writing about it and having people read that. Serializd's season reviews and follow graph are genuinely the best of the free options, it is free on all three platforms with no upsell, and its importer went live during the shutdown without charging for it — which is more than Simkl managed.
We would rather tell you that than have you sign up here and leave disappointed. If reviews and community are the point for you, that is where the people are.
You watch films or sport as well as TV. Serializd is TV only by design, so films and matches live somewhere else — usually nowhere. Here they sit in one list.
You want your TV Time comments back. Drop the GDPR export in and every comment you wrote returns attached to the episode it was about. It is the thing people miss most and most replacements quietly drop it.
You want to know what all this is costing you. This is the real difference and no other tracker does it. Tell us what you subscribe to — two taps, prices pre-filled — and you get your true yearly number. Once you have added the shows you actually watch, we tell you which services have had nothing watched on them while you were busy elsewhere. Every tracker on the market knows what you watch. None of them know what it costs.
Yes, and plenty of people will. They do not conflict: Serializd for writing about television, Help Me Binge for everything you watch plus the money question. Both are free, so the only cost is keeping two lists in step.
One piece of advice that applies to both, and to us: export your library the week you set it up. TV Time was beloved, enormous, and switched off with weeks of notice. Any tracker that will not let you download your own data is one announcement away from being the same story.